Hatred of Demigods and Druids

"Besides, I heard that the quilboar have always enshrined the two broken tusks of their dead demigod, Agamaggan, deep within Razorfen. If we disguised ourselves as centaurs and stole their sacred relics, do you think they would go straight to the centaurs to take them back?" The one who proposed this was Magatha Grimtotem, chieftain of the Grimtotem Clan. She was a middle-aged Tauren woman and a powerful shaman. Though she was not as strong as Thrall, she was likely on par with the old shaman Drek'Thar.

"But those are the teeth of the demigod Agamaggan, Magatha. Agamaggan sacrificed himself for Azeroth. How can we desecrate his relics?" Hamuul Runetotem, another chieftain, immediately refuted Magatha's suggestion. As a powerful druid who had spent a long time in the Emerald Dream, Hamuul deeply respected the demigods, especially one who had died for Azeroth.

"I support Lady Magatha's proposal. As an orc, I too respect the demigod Agamaggan, who sacrificed himself for Azeroth. But his descendants, the quilboar, are nothing but an insult to him. They dwell in the place where Agamaggan fell, yet all they do is endlessly take from the earth and consume the blood he left behind. Such a foolish race is an insult to Agamaggan. I believe that if Agamaggan's soul still remains, he likely hates these descendants of his." Rend knew that Agamaggan's soul had not even returned to the Emerald Dream. It remained in Razorfen and even gave quests to deal with the quilboar, which showed just how little fondness he had for his descendants. And why had Agamaggan's soul not returned to the Emerald Dream? Many other demigods who successfully returned there were later resurrected, but Agamaggan was not among them. The quilboar had likely imprisoned the demigod's soul, preventing him from returning to the Emerald Dream.

Besides, to be honest, Rend had no admiration for Agamaggan at all. As an atheist, he had always scoffed at these so-called demigods. They were merely powerful creatures born lucky. Agamaggan was only so-so in strength—had he not died at Mannoroth's hands? Mannoroth himself had died twice beneath Grommash's axe. What demigod? All reputation and no substance. They were not even as strong as mortals like them. Worse, it was under the protection of these so-called demigods that quilboar, centaurs, and harpies ran rampant across Kalimdor. The Night Elves always claimed to be guardians of nature. Heh. Why did they not protect southern Kalimdor? Why did they allow the descendants and followers of these so-called demigods to wreak havoc? Protecting nature? They only protected the nature within their control. In Rend's eyes, druidic doctrine was nothing more than a cult-like pyramid scheme.

Rend had no favorable impression whatsoever of the Cenarion Circle. In fact, he loathed them. Cenarius, that so-called demigod who protected nature, had founded druidism—but why had he never done anything about southern Kalimdor, which had been ravaged by his own descendants and Agamaggan's? Desolace, the Barrens, Durotar—had they not all become barren as they were today because of his indulgence?

Then, for the Horde's survival, they had no choice but to cut down trees in Ashenvale, only to suffer an attack from that powerful demigod. If the south had possessed any forest resources at all, why would Grommash and Warsong have risked their lives coming here?

Rend also looked down on the Archdruid Malfurion. He had to admit that Malfurion was immensely powerful and had saved the world many times, but his brain... Believing that the Well of Eternity had drawn demons to the world, he became hostile toward the Highborne, causing some to leave and become High Elves while abandoning the rest to fend for themselves. When Illidan reforged the Well of Eternity, Malfurion imprisoned him for ten thousand years... Do you even know that he was your own brother? What kind of older brother does that?

If the Well of Eternity had truly been a calamity, that would have been one thing. But, umm, it was Azeroth's core. The Pantheon had prepared it so Azeroth could better become a new Titan, yet Malfurion rejected it entirely. Congratulations, kid. Because of your ignorance, you wronged your own brother, imprisoned the Child of Light and Darkness for ten thousand years, and prevented Azeroth from developing, leaving her suppressed by the Old Gods.

There was one question here: did those ancient demigods truly not know this? Did they not know the purpose of the Well of Eternity? Or had they joined forces to set this all up? There was no way to know.

Later, Illidan acquired the Eye of Sargeras and nearly destroyed the Lich King. If Illidan had only been given a little more time, that menace could have been wiped out. Yet Malfurion heard some so-called cry of the earth and went to stop Illidan. But what lay beneath Northrend? Yogg-Saron. What he had prevented was not the continent from being torn apart, but Yogg-Saron from being torn apart. All by himself, he had left Azeroth with two disasters: the Lich King and an Old God.

Thus, from Rend's perspective, he had no favorable opinion at all of the Cenarion Circle or these so-called demigods and druids. Of course, he felt differently about Hamuul. After all, Hamuul was a generous and kind elder to everyone in the Horde. Rend would not take his displeasure out on him because of this.

"But..." Hamuul still wanted to say something.

"That's enough, old friend. The Tauren respect Agamaggan, but now our entire race is in danger. Besides, we have brought our Horde brothers into this with us. We respect him, but we cannot stake our lives on that respect. If the quilboar get involved, how many Tauren warriors can avoid being sacrificed? The Tauren need a stable home, Hamuul." This time, Cairne did not side with the view of Hamuul, his longtime friend and supporter. Though Cairne also revered nature and the demigods, after so many long years, all he wanted was to lead the Tauren to a safe refuge. He no longer wished to watch Tauren warriors die for nothing, living precarious lives filled with fear.

Now, he only wanted Baine's generation to no longer live beneath the centaurs' shadow—to no longer face centaur attacks in childhood. How many lovable Tauren had been brutally killed by centaurs when they were still young? For thousands of years, the Night Elves had not helped them. The quilboar and centaurs bullied them, and by Cairne's generation, the centaurs even wanted to exterminate the Tauren. Even then, the Night Elves had shown no intention of intervening. Before the Horde arrived, he had been utterly desperate. The Tauren had not a single ally, not a single faction willing to help them. Only the orcs. Though the orcs were outsiders, Cairne and the Tauren would never forget that when they were at their most desperate, it was the Horde that had been willing to help them selflessly.